Verphy Kudi, 19, was sentenced to nine years imprisonment at Lewes Crown Court on Friday 6 August, having admitted at a hearing in March to the manslaughter of her daughter Asiah, aged 20 months, at a flat where they were living in Islingword Road, Brighton, in December 2019.
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